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Titles	Order
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty
Crowded years; the reminiscences of William G. McAdoo by William Gibbs McAdoo	Nonfiction-Memoir, 1931
Outpost of empire : the story of the founding of San Francisco by Herbert Eugene Bolton	Scholarship-History, 1931
Adventures of a Novelist by Gertrude Atherton	Nonfiction-Memoir, Gold, 1932
The Autobiography of Lincoln Steffens by Lincoln Steffens	Nonfiction-Memoir, Silver, 1932
Nur Mahal by Harold Lamb	General Literature, Silver, 1932
The pursuit of death: A study of Shelley's poetry by Benjamin Putnam Kurtz	Scholarship-Study, Silver, 1933
San Francisco: A Pageant by Charles Caldwell Dobie	Nonfiction, Gold, 1933
The Lord's Annointed by Ruth Eleanor McKee	General Literature, Silver, 1934
The Revolutionary Emperor: Joseph II of Austria by Saul Kussiel Padover	Scholarship-History, Silver, 1934
The Saga of the Comstock Lode by George D. Lyman	Scholarship, Gold, 1934
Laughter Out of the Ground; A Novel in Cadence by Robin Lampson	General Literature, Silver, 1935
San Francisco tales by Charles Dobie	Nonfiction, Gold, 1935
Tortilla Flat by John Steinbeck	General Literature, Silver, 1935
God and man's destiny by Hartley Burr Alexander	Scholarship, Gold, 1936
In Dubious Battle by John Steinbeck	General Literature, Silver, 1936
Ordeal by Hunger: The Story of the Donner Party by George R. Stewart	Scholarship, Silver, 1936
Snow covered wagons : a pioneer epic : the Donner party expedition, 1846-1847 by Julia Cooley Altrocchi	Scholarship, Silver, 1936
The early Stuarts, 1603-1660 by Godfrey Davies	Scholarship, Silver, 1937
The Education of Hyman Kaplan by Leonard Q. Ross	General Literature, Silver, 1937
Men of Mathematics by E. T. Bell	Scholarship, Gold, 1937
The Big Four: The Story of Huntington, Stanford, Hopkins, and Crocker, and of the Building of the Central Pacific by Oscar Lewis	Scholarship, Silver, 1938
East of the Giants by George R. Stewart	General Literature, Silver, 1938
Enchanted Vagabonds by Dana Lamb	Nonfiction-Memoir, Gold, 1938
Bright heritage by Mary Virginia Provines	General Literature, Silver, 1939
Flowering Earth by Donald Culross Peattie	Scholarship, Silver, 1939
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck	General Literature ∙ Silver ∙ 1939
Land Below the Wind by Agnes Newton Keith	Nonfiction-Memoir, Gold, 1939
San Francisco's Literary Frontier by Franklin Walker	Scholarship, Gold, 1939
The Time of Your Life: A Comedy in Three Acts by William Saroyan	General Literature, Silver, 1939
Blue Willow by Doris Gates	Juvenile, Silver, 1940
A Diplomatic History of the American People by Thomas A. Bailey	Scholarship, Gold, 1940
The March of the Barbarians by Harold Lamb	Scholarship, Silver, 1940
My Name Is Aram by William Saroyan	Nonfiction-Memoir, Silver, 1940
The Structure of Art by Carl Thurston	Scholarship, Gold, 1940
Wild Geese Calling by Stewart Edward White	General Literature, Silver, 1940
Anybody's Gold: The Story of California's Mining Towns by Joseph Henry Jackson	General Literature, Silver, 1941
Lord of Alaska; Baranov and the Russian Adventure by Hector Chevigny	Nonfiction, Gold, 1941
Many Mexicos by Lesley Byrd Simpson	Scholarship, Gold, 1941
A history of historical writing by James Westfall Thompson	Scholarship, Gold, 1942
The Man Who Killed the Deer by Frank Waters	Fiction, Silver, 1942
Proud Riders, and Other Poems by H.L. Davis	Poetry, 1942
I Remember Christine: (A Novel) by Oscar Lewis	General Literature, Silver, 1942
The Stranger in Big Sur by Lillian Bos Ross	Fiction, Silver, 1942
Brothers under the skin by Carey McWilliams	Nonfiction, Gold, 1943
The Legacy of Nazism: The Economic and Social Consequences of Totalitarianism by Frank Munk	Scholarship, Gold, 1943
Spurs for Antonia by Katherine Wigmore Eyre	Juvenile, Silver, 1943
Trio by Dorothy Baker	General Literature, Silver, 1943
Wide is the Gate by Upton Sinclair	Fiction, Silver, 1943
Caesar and Christ by Will Durant	Nonfiction, Gold, 1944
Captain Retread by Donald Hough	Fiction, Silver, 1944
Mystery at Thunderbolt House by Howard Pease	Juvenile, Silver, 1944
One Day on Beetle Rock by Sally Carrighar	General Literature, Silver, 1944
Woodrow Wilson and the Lost Peace by Thomas A. Bailey	Scholarship, Gold, 1944
The Epic of Latin America by John A. Crow	Scholarship, Gold, 1945
High Bonnet by Idwal Jones	Fiction, Silver, 1945
A Lion Is in the Streets by Adria Locke Langley	General Literature, Silver, 1945
Minor Heresies, Major Departures: A China Mission Boyhood by John Jenkins Espey	Nonfiction, Gold, 1945
The Singing Cave by Margaret Carver Leighton	Juvenile, Silver, 1945
South America called them; explorations of the great naturalists: La Condamine, Humboldt, Darwin, Spruce by Victor Wolfgang Von Hagen	Nonfiction, Silver, 1945
Big Tree by Mary Buff	Fiction, Gold, 1946
The Christian heritage in America by George Percy Hedley	Nonfiction, Silver, 1946
Theodore Roosevelt and the Progressive Movement by George E. Mowry	Nonfiction, Silver, 1946
The Atlantic Frontier: Colonial American Civilization, 1607-1763 by Louis B. Wright	Scholarship, Gold, 1947
Blood Brother by Elliott Arnold	Fiction, Gold, 1947
The great forest by Richard Gordon Lillard	Nonfiction, Silver, 1947
The Trial of Sören Qvist by Janet Lewis	General Literature, Silver, 1947
The Age of the Great Depression 1929-1941: A History of American Life by Dixon Wecter	Scholarship, Gold, 1948
The Big Divide by David Lavender	Nonfiction, Silver, 1948
The Legend of Henry Ford by Keith Sward	Nonfiction, Silver, 1948
The Nine Brides and Granny Hite by Neill Compton Wilson	Fiction, Silver, 1948
Seabird by Holling C. Holling	Juvenile, Silver, 1948
The Sky and the Forest by C. S. Forester	Fiction, Gold, 1948
Woman with a Sword by Hollister Noble	General Literature, Silver, 1948
At The Palace Gates by Helen Rand Parish	Juvenile, Silver, 1949
The beast in his hunger; poems by Harry Brown	Poetry, Silver, 1949
Epicurus My Master by Max Radin	Fiction, Silver, 1949
The Journey of Simon McKeever by Albert Maltz	Fiction, Gold, 1949
Revolt in San Marcos by Robert Carver North	Fiction, Silver, 1949
To Hell and Back by Audie Murphy	Nonfiction, Silver, 1949
About Mrs. Leslie by Viña Delmar	Fiction, Silver, 1950
Bridal Journey by Dale Van Every	Fiction, Gold, 1950
Fifth Chinese Daughter by Jade Snow Wong	Nonfiction, Silver, 1950
Sea Road to the Indies: An account of the voyages and exploits of the Portuguese navigators, together with the life and times of Dom Vasco da Gama, Capitao-Mor, Viceroy of India and Count Vidigueira by Henry Hersch Hart	Nonfiction, Gold, 1950
Thomas and the Red Headed Angel by Marion Garthwaite	Juvenile, Silver, 1950
Ark of Empire by Idwal Jones	Nonfiction, Silver, 1951
The Negro and the Communist Party by Wilson Record	Nonfiction, Silver, 1951
Sandra and the Right Prince by Mildred Napier Anderson	Fiction, Gold, 1951
Tracy's Tiger by William Saroyan	Fiction, Silver, 1951
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer	Nonfiction, Gold, 1951
Boss Ruef's San Francisco: The Story of the Union Labor Party, Big Business, and the Graft Prosecution (Cal 138) by Walton Bean	Nonfiction, Gold, 1952
Winds of Morning by H.L. Davis	Fiction, Silver, 1952
Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury	Fiction, Silver, 1953
The High and the Mighty by Ernest K. Gann	Fiction, Gold, 1953
It's good to be black by Ruby Berkley Goodwin	Nonfiction, Gold, 1953
Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West by Wallace Stegner	Nonfiction, Silver, 1954
Beyond the Hungry Country by Louise A. Stinetorf	Fiction, Silver, 1954
The Epics of Everest by Leonard Wibberley	Fiction, Silver, 1954
Glory, God and Gold: A Narrative History of the Southwest by Paul I. Wellman	Nonfiction, Silver, 1954
Howells and the age of realism by Everett Carter	Nonfiction, Gold, 1954
The Nightmare by C. S. Forester	Fiction, Gold, 1954
Cities in Revolt: Urban Life in America, 1743-1776 by Carl Bridenbaugh	Nonfiction, Gold, 1955
The Genius and the Goddess by Aldous Huxley	Fiction, Silver, 1955
The Good Shepherd by C. S. Forester	Fiction, Silver, 1955
Notre-Dame of Paris by Allan Temko	Nonfiction, Gold, 1955
The Streets of San Francisco by Samuel Dickson	Nonfiction, Silver, 1955
James Wilson, Founding Father, 1742-1798 by Page Smith	Nonfiction, Silver, 1956
The Long Watch by Elizabeth Linington	Fiction, Silver, 1956
Men of the Western Waters by Dale Van Every	Californiana, Silver, 1956
The Nun's Story by Kathryn Hulme	Nonfiction, Gold, 1956
Spook, the Mustang by Harlan Thompson	Fiction, Silver, 1956
The Braintree Mission by Nicholas E. Wyckoff	Fiction, Silver, 1957
David and the Phoenix by Edward Ormondroyd	Juvenile, Silver, 1957
Elizabethans at Home by Lu Emily Pearson	Nonfiction, Gold, 1957
The Flower Drum Song by C. Y. Lee	Fiction, Silver, 1957
Knock and Wait a While by William Rawle Weeks	Fiction, Silver, 1957
San Francisco Bay by Harold Gilliam	Californiana, Silver, 1957
The Era of Theodore Roosevelt, 1900-1912 by George E. Mowry	Nonfiction, Silver, 1958
Land of Giants: Drive to the Pacific Northwest, 1750-1950 by David Lavender	Nonfiction, Silver, 1958
Mistress to an age : a life of Madame de Staël by J. Christopher Herold	Nonfiction, Gold, 1958
Montgomery and the Portsmouth by Fred Blackburn Rogers	Californiana, Silver, 1958
The Sergeant by Dennis Murphy	Fiction, Silver, 1958
Warlock by Oakley Hall	Fiction, Gold, 1958
Alexander Hamilton: portrait in paradox by John Chester Miller	Nonfiction, Gold, 1959
The Earth Shook, the Sky Burned by William Bronson	Californiana, Silver, 1959
The end of American innocence : a study of the first years of our own time, 1912-1917 by Henry Farnham May	Nonfiction, Silver, 1959
Flight from Ashiya by Elliott Arnold	Fiction, Gold, 1959
Thaddeus Stevens : Scourge of the South by Fawn M. Brodie	Nonfiction, Silver, 1959
The Thirteenth Apostle by Eugene Vale	Fiction, Silver, 1959
This Is The Desert story of America's Arid Region by Phil Ault	Juvenile, Silver, 1959
Chancellor Robert R. Livingston of New York, 1746-1813 by George Dangerfield	Nonfiction, Gold, 1960
Hawaii, the Aloha State by Helen Bauer	Juvenile, Silver, 1960
A Shooting Star by Wallace Stegner	Fiction, Silver, 1960
The War for the Union, Vol. 2: War Becomes Revolution, 1862-1863 by Allan Nevins	Nonfiction, Silver, 1960
The Agony and the Ecstasy: A Biographical Novel of Michelangelo by Irving Stone	Fiction, Silver, 1961
Forth to the Wilderness: The First American Frontier, 1754-1774 by Dale Van Every	Nonfiction, Silver, 1961
The Gray Sea Raiders by Gordon D. Shirreffs	Juvenile, Silver, 1961
Ishi in Two Worlds by Theodora Kroeber	Californiana, Silver, 1961
Mila 18 by Leon Uris	Fiction, Gold, 1961
Sinclair Lewis: An American Life by Mark Schorer	Nonfiction, Gold, 1961
Adolph Sutro, a biography by Robert E. Stewart	Nonfiction, Silver, 1962
The Everlasting Fire by Jonreed Lauritzen	Fiction, Silver, 1962
First woman ambulance surgeon, Emily Barringer by Iris Noble	Juvenile, Silver, 1962
Franz Kafka: Parable and Paradox [Revised and Expanded Edition] by Heinz Politzer	Nonfiction, Gold, 1962
Heart of the Wild by Chet Schwarzkopf	Fiction, Silver medal, 1962
John Adams by Page Smith	Nonfiction, Gold, 1962
Ah, Julian! A memoir of Julian Brodetsky by Wibberley Leonard	Nonfiction, Silver, 1963
A History of Russia by Nicholas V. Riasanovsky	Nonfiction, Gold, 1963
James Gibbons Huneker, critic of the seven arts by Arnold T. Schwab	Nonfiction, Silver, 1963
The Keys and the Candle by Maryhale Woolsey	Juvenile, Silver, 1963
South from San Francisco by Frank Merriman Stanger	Californiana, Silver, 1963
Andreas Vesalius of Brussels, 1514-1564 by C. D. O'Malley	Nonfiction, Gold, 1964
Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin by Leon Uris	Fiction, Silver, 1964
The Gathering of Zion: The Story of the Mormon Trail by Wallace Stegner	Fiction, Silver, 1964
The Man by Irving Wallace	Fiction, Silver, 1964
Sarah & the Senator by Robert Henry Kroninger	Californiana, Silver, 1964
A Spell is Cast by Eleanor Cameron	Juvenile, Silver, 1964
Arfive by A.B. Jr Guthrie	Nonfiction, Gold, 1965
Campion Towers by John Louis Beatty	Juvenile, Silver, 1965
The Final Challenge: The American Frontier, 1804-1845 by Dale Van Every	Nonfiction, Silver, 1965
Mein Cello und ich und unsere Begegnungen by Gregor Piatigorsky	Nonfiction, Silver, 1965
Oil, land, and politics; the California career of Thomas Robert Bard by W. H. Hutchinson	Nonfiction, Gold, 1965
Selected Poems by Louis Simpson	Poetry, Silver, 1965
The Year of the Death by Reuben Merliss	Fiction, Silver, 1965
All the Little Heroes by Herbert Wilner	Fiction, Silver, 1966
The cave and the mountain : a study of E M Forster by Wilfred Stone	Nonfiction, Gold, 1966
Chancy and the Grand Rascal by Sid Fleischman	Californiana, Silver, 1966
Decline of the Californios: A Social History of the Spanish-Speaking Californias, 1846-1890 by Leonard Pitt	Nonfiction, Silver, 1966
The ordeal of the Constitution; the antifederalists and the ratification struggle of 1787-1788 by Robert Allen Rutland	Nonfiction, Silver, 1966
The Stone Mason of Tor House: The Life and Times of Robinson Jeffers by Melba Berry Bennett	Nonfiction, Gold, 1966
All the Little Live Things by Wallace Stegner	Fiction, Silver, 1967
Fathers by Herbert Gold	Nonfiction, Silver, 1967
Fool's Gold A Biography of John Sutter by Richard Dillon	Californiana, Silver, 1967
A Night of Watching by Elliott Arnold	Fiction, Gold, 1967
Robert E. Lee: A Portrait by Margaret Sanborn	Nonfiction, Gold, 1967
The rose of solitude by William Everson	Poetry, Silver, 1967
Silent ship, silent sea by Robb White	Juvenile, Silver, 1967
The young Stalin; the early years of an elusive revolutionary by Edward Ellis Smith	Nonfiction, Silver, 1967
Airport by Arthur Hailey	Fiction, Silver, 1968
Edward L. Thorndike: The Sane Positivist by Geraldine JonCich Clifford	Nonfiction, Gold, 1968
Everyman's Eden; a history of California by Ralph Joseph Roske	Californiana, Silver, 1968
Heroic Mexico: The Violent Emergence of a Modern Nation by William Weber Johnson	Nonfiction, Gold, 1968
The Immigrant Upraised: Italian Adventurers and Colonists in an Expanding America by Andrew F. Rolle	Nonfiction, Silver, 1968
The Cay by Theodore Taylor	Juvenile, Silver, 1969
The Great Betrayal by Audrie Girdner	Californiana, Silver, 1969
The Green and Burning Tree: On the Writing and Enjoyment of Children's Books by Eleanor Cameron	Juvenile, Silver, 1969
With Bold Knife and Fork by M. F. K. Fisher	Nonfiction, Gold, 1969
Asian Ideas of East and West: Tagore and His Critics in Japan, China, and India by Stephen N. Hay	Nonfiction, Gold, 1970
Crimson Ramblers of the World, Farewell by Jessamyn West	Fiction, Silver, 1970
The El Dorado Trail by Ferol Egan	Californiana, Silver, 1970
Interpretations of Life: A Survey of Contemporary Literature: The Lives and Opinions of Some Major Authors of Our Time by Will Durant	Nonfiction, Silver, 1970
Jonah and the great fish by Clyde Robert Bulla	Juvenile, Silver, 1970
The Rise of Modern China by Immanuel Chung-yueh Hsü	Nonfiction, Silver, 1970
Annie and the Old One by Miska Miles	Juvenile, Silver, 1971
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman by Ernest J. Gaines	Fiction, Silver, 1971
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty	1971
The Indispensable Enemy: Labor and the Anti-Chinese Movement in California by Alexander Saxton	Californiana, Silver, 1971
More under Saturn (The Wesleyan poetry program v. 58) by William Dickey	Poetry, Silver, 1971
Textile Art in the Church by Marion P. Ireland	Nonfiction, Silver, 1971
Contour in Time: The Plays of Eugene O'Neill by Travis Bogard	Nonfiction, Gold, 1972
Monterey by Augusta Fink	Californiana, Silver, 1972
The Pound Era by Hugh Kenner	Fiction, Silver, 1972
Samurai of Gold Hill by Yoshiko Uchida	Juvenile, Silver, 1972
Sand in a Whirlwind: The Paiute Indian War of 1860 by Ferol Egan	Nonfiction, Silver, 1972
Americans and the California Dream, 1850-1915 by Kevin Starr	Nonfiction, Gold, 1973
Chile, Peru, and the California Gold Rush of 1849 by Jay Monaghan	Californiana, Silver, 1973
The Cowboy and the Cossack by Clair Huffaker	Fiction, Silver, 1973
Gideon Welles: Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy by John Niven	Nonfiction, Silver, 1973
Living together : new and selected poems by Edgar Bowers	Poetry, Silver, 1973
Steinbeck Country by Steve Crouch	Nonfiction, Gold, 1973
Yours, And Mine by Judith Rascoe	Fiction, Silver, 1973
Against the law;: The Nixon Court and criminal justice by Leonard W. Levy	Fiction, Silver, 1974
The Ascent of Man by Jacob Bronowski	Nonfiction, Gold, 1974
The Connoisseur by Evan S. Connell	Fiction, Silver, 1974
An Everyday History of Somewhere by Ray Raphael	Californiana, Gold, 1974
Love Out of Season by Ella Leffland	Fiction, Silver, 1974
The paper party by Don Freeman	Juvenile, Silver, 1974
A Time for Titans by Viña Delmar	Fiction, Silver, 1974
The Age of Napoleon by Will Durant	Nonfiction, Silver, 1975
The Great Train Robbery by Michael Crichton	Fiction, Silver, 1975
Nothing seemed impossible: William C. Ralston and early San Francisco (Western biography series) by David Lavender	Californiana, Silver, 1975
The Opium War, 1840-1842: Barbarians in the Celestial Empire in the Early Part of the Nineteenth Century and the War by Which They Forced Her Gates Ajar by Peter Ward Fay	Nonfiction, Silver, 1975
The Rape of the Nile: Tomb Robbers, Tourists, and Archaeologists in Egypt, Revised and Updated by Brian M. Fagan	Nonfiction, Gold, 1975
Romantic Revolutionary: A Biography of John Reed by Robert A. Rosenstone	Nonfiction, Silver, 1975
Adult Bookstore by Karl Shapiro	Poetry, Silver, 1976
Jack Straw's Castle by Thom Gunn	Poetry, Gold, 1976
A New Age Now Begins: A People's History of the American Revolution by Page Smith	Nonfiction, Gold, 1976
Peasants into Frenchmen: The Modernization of Rural France, 1870-1914 by Eugen Weber	Nonfiction, Silver, 1976
The Spectator Bird by Wallace Stegner	Fiction, Silver, 1976
Botanical Prints by Henry Evans	Nonfiction, Silver, 1977
Fremont: Explorer for a Restless Nation by Ferol Egan	Nonfiction, Silver, 1977
Haywire by Brooke Hayward	Nonfiction, Silver, 1977
In Mediterranean Air by Ann Stanford	Poetry, Silver, 1977
The Wanderers: The Saga of Three Women Who Survived by Ingrid Rimland	First Fiction, Gold, 1977
The Dark Range by David Rains Wallace	Californiana, Silver, 1978
Germany 1866-1945 by Gordon A. Craig	Nonfiction, Silver, 1978
Max Perkins: Editor of Genius by A. Scott Berg	Fiction, Gold, 1978
North of Danger by Dale Fife	Juvenile, Silver, 1978
Saint Nicholas of Myra, Bari, and Manhattan: Biography of a Legend by Charles W. Jones	Nonfiction, Silver, 1978
A Woman of Independent Means by Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey	First Fiction, Silver, 1978
Been in the Storm So Long: The Aftermath of Slavery by Leon F. Litwack	Nonfiction, Silver, 1979
The Fool and the Dancing Bear by Pamela Stearns	Juvenile, Silver, 1979
The Morning Star by Kenneth Rexroth	Poetry, Silver, 1979
Sea Glass by Laurence Yep	Juvenile, Silver, 1979
Symbols of Eternity: The Art of Landscape Painting in China by Michael Sullivan	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1979
The Urban Crucible: The Northern Seaports and the Origins of the American Revolution by Gary B. Nash	Nonfiction, Silver, 1979
The Year of the French by Thomas Flanagan	First Fiction, Gold, 1979
Flight of the Sparrow by Julia Cunningham	Juvenile, Gold, 1980
The Half-a-Moon Inn by Paul Fleischman	Juvenile, Silver, 1980
The Imperiled Union: Essays on the Background of the Civil War by Kenneth M. Stampp	Nonfiction, Silver, 1980
impossible appetites by James Fetler	Fiction, Silver, 1980
A Revolutionary People At War: The Continental Army and American Character, 1775-1783 by Charles Royster	Nonfiction, Silver, 1980
Translating Neruda: The Way to Macchu Picchu by John Felstiner	Nonfiction, Gold, 1980
Family: A Novel in the Form of a Memoir by Herbert Gold	Fiction, Silver, 1981
Hunger of Memory : The Education of Richard Rodriguez by Richard Rodriguez	Nonfiction, Gold, 1981
A Jar of Dreams by Yoshiko Uchida	Juvenile, Silver, 1981
Poems Old and New: 1918-1978 by Janet Lewis	Poetry, Silver, 1981
Will's Boy: A Memoir by Wright Morris	Nonfiction, Silver, 1981
The World Rushed In: The California Gold Rush Experience by J. S. Holliday	Californiana, Gold, 1981
The Glorious Cause: The American Revolution, 1763-1789 by Robert Middlekauff	Nonfiction, Gold, 1982
The Infinite Passion of Expectation by Gina Berriault	Fiction, Silver, 1982
Spacks Street : new & selected poems by Barry Spacks	Poetry, Silver, 1982
Story for a Black Night by Clayton Bess	First Fiction, Silver, 1982
Winemaking in California by Ruth Teiser	Californiana, Gold, 1982
Collected Poems, 1930-83 by Josephine Miles	Poetry, Silver, 1983
Cry of the Kalahari: Seven Years in Africa's Last Great Wilderness by Mark Owens	Juvenile, Silver, 1983
Dear Mr. Henshaw by Beverly Cleary	Juvenile, Silver, 1983
A Dime to Dance By by Walter Walker	First Fiction, Silver, 1983
The First Elizabeth by Carolly Erickson	Nonfiction, Gold, 1983
French Gothic Architecture of the 12th and 13th Centuries by Jean V. Bony	Nonfiction, Gold, 1983
A Gathering of Old Men by Ernest J. Gaines	Fiction, Silver, 1983
The Klamath Knot by David Rains Wallace	Californiana, Silver, 1983
Mountains of the Middle Kingdom: Exploring the High Peaks of China and Tibet by Galen Rowell	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1983
Above Paris by Pierre Salinger	Nonfiction, Silver, 1984
Celebrating Italy by Carol Field	Notable Contribution to Publishishing, Silver, 1984
European Poems and Transitions: Over All the Obscene Boundaries (New Directions Paperback) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Poetry, Silver, 1984
The Hill Towns of Italy by Carol Field	Notable Contribution to Publishishing, Silver, 1984
Monkey Puzzle and Other Poems by Myra Cohn Livingston	Juvenile, Silver, 1984
Stones for Ibarra by Harriet Doerr	Fiction, Silver, 1984
Tapping the Source by Kem Nunn	First Fiction, Silver, 1984
The University of California/Sotheby Book of California Wine by Doris Muscatine	Californiana, Gold, 1984
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-1980 by Thomas Albright	California, Gold, 1985
Early light (University of Utah Press poetry series) by W. S. Di Piero	Poetry, Silver, 1985
Face by Cecile Pineda	Fiction, Silver, 1985
Greasy Lake: and Other stories by T. Coraghessan Boyle	Fiction, Silver, 1985
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals by Spiro Kostof	Nonfiction, Gold, 1985
Reasons to Live by Amy Hempel	Fiction, Silver, 1985
Willow Maiden by Meghan Collins	Juvenile, Silver, 1985
Birds Landing by Ernest Finney	Fiction, Silver, 1986
France, Fin de Siècle by Eugen Weber	Nonfiction, Gold, 1986
Giovanni and Lusanna: Love and Marriage in Renaissance Florence by Gene Brucker	Nonfiction, Silver, 1986
The Golden Gate: A Novel in Verse by Vikram Seth	Californiana, Gold, 1986
Left Out in the Rain: New Poems 1947-1985 by Gary Snyder	Poetry, Silver, 1986
Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape by Galen A. Rowell	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1986
Sapphics Against Anger and Other Poems by Timothy Steele	Poetry, Silver, 1986
Small Business (Contemporary American Fiction) by Tom Parker	First Fiction, Silver, 1986
And the Band Played On: Politics, People, and the AIDS Epidemic by Randy Shilts	Nonfiction, Silver, 1987
Bitter Melon by Jeff Gillenkirk	Californiana, Silver, 1987
Chaucer: His Life, His Works, His World by Donald R. Howard	Nonfiction, Gold, 1987
Imagining Argentina by Lawrence Thornton	First Fiction, Silver, 1987
Nell's Quilt by Susan Terris	Juvenile, Silver, 1987
Unremembered Country by Susan Griffin	First Fiction, Silver, 1987
Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific by Lynne Withey	Nonfiction, Silver, 1987
World's End by T. C. Boyle	Fiction, Silver, 1987
The Collected Poems by Czesław Miłosz	Poetry, Silver, 1988
Green Architecture & The Agrarian Garden by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon	Nonfiction, Silver, 1988
Julia Morgan, Architect by Sara Holmes Boutelle	Californiana, Gold, 1988
Julia Morgan: An Intimate Biography of the Trailblazing Architect by Victoria Kastner	1988
Of Gravity and Angels by Jane Hirshfield	Poetry, Silver, 1988
Picasso's Guernica: History, Transformations, Meanings by Herschel B. Chipp	Nonfiction, Silver, 1988
Step into the Night by Joanne Ryder	Juvenile, Silver, 1988
The Way to the Western Sea by David Lavender	Nonfiction, Silver, 1988
What is It Then Between Us?: Stories (Collier Fiction) by Ehud Havazelet	Fiction, Silver, 1988
Dead Languages by David Shields	Poetry, Silver, 1989
Denial of Disaster by Gladys C. Hansen	Californiana, Gold, 1989
Fortress (Wesleyan Poetry) by Brenda Hillman	Poetry, Silver, 1989
Human Wishes by Robert Hass	Poetry, Silver, 1989
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan	Fiction, Silver, 1989
Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans by Ronald Takaki	Nonfiction, Gold, 1989
America in 1857: A Nation on the Brink by Kenneth M. Stampp	Nonfiction, Silver, 1990
Babushka's Doll by Patricia Polacco	Juvenile, Silver, 1990
Bay Area Figurative Art, 1950-1965 by Caroline A. Jones	Californiana, Gold, 1990
O California! : nineteenth and early twentieth century California landscapes and observations by Stephen Vincent	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1990
Even Now by Michelle Latiolais	Fiction, Silver, 1990
The Knight, Death and the Devil by Ella Leffland	Nonfiction, Silver, 1990
Limbo River by Rick Hillis	Fiction, Silver, 1990
Sacred Mountains of the World by Edwin Bernbaum	Nonfiction, Gold, 1990
Anne Sexton: A Biography by Diane Middlebrook	Nonfiction, Gold, 1991
Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women by Susan Faludi	Nonfiction, Silver, 1991
Farming on the Edge by John Hart	Californiana, Gold, 1991
Fly Away Home by Eve Bunting	Juvenile, Silver, 1991
Jayhawker by Patricia Beatty	Juvenile, Silver, 1991
Mariette in Ecstasy by Ron Hansen	Fiction, Silver, 1991
Provinces by Czesław Miłosz	Poetry, Silver, 1991
Sarah Canary by Karen Joy Fowler	Fiction, Silver, 1991
What Work Is by Philip Levine	Poetry, Silver, 1991
A Bowl of Mischief by Ellen Kindt McKenzie	Juvenile, Silver, 1992
Cantora by Sylvia Lopez-Medina	First Novel, Silver, 1992
Chicken Sunday by Patricia Polacco	Juvenile, Silver, 1992
Days of Obligation: An Argument with My Mexican Father by Richard Rodriguez	Nonfiction, Silver, 1992
Earthquake at Dawn by Kristiana Gregory	Juvenile, Silver, 1992
Josiah Royce: From Grass Valley to Harvard by Robert V. Hine	Californiana, Gold, 1992
Napoleon: An Intimate Account of the Years of Supremacy 1800-1814 by Proctor Patterson Jones	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1992
Red Square by Martin Cruz Smith	Fiction, Silver, 1992
Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People by Ramon Eduardo Ruiz	Nonfiction, Gold, 1992
When Nietzsche Wept by Irvin Yalom	Fiction, Gold, 1992
The Arts and Crafts Movement in California: Living the Good Life by Kenneth R. Trapp	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1993
Bull Run by Paul Fleischman	Juvenile, Silver, 1993
Dragon's Gate by Laurence Yep	Juvenile, Silver, 1993
Grandfather's Journey by Allen Say	Juvenile, Silver, 1993
The Great Central Valley by Stephen Johnson	Californiana, Silver, 1993
Lost Body (National Poetry Series) by Terry Ehret	Poetry, Silver, 1993
No Way to Build a Ballpark and Other Irreverent Essays on Architecture by Allan Temko	Nonfiction, Silver, 1993
Opera in America: A Cultural History by John Dizikes	Nonfiction, Gold, 1993
Tuscaloosa: A novel by W. Glasgow Phillips	First Novel, Silver, 1993
Catherine, Called Birdy by Karen Cushman	Juvenile, Silver, 1994
The October Palace: Poems by Jane Hirshfield	Poetry, Silver, 1994
The Odyssey of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade: Americans in the Spanish Civil War by Peter N. Carroll	Juvenile, Silver, 1994
The Palace Thief by Ethan Canin	Fiction, Silver, 1994
The Philosopher's Club by Kim Addonizio	Poetry, Silver, 1994
Schoolgirls: Young Women, Self Esteem, and the Confidence Gap by Peggy Orenstein	Nonfiction, Silver, 1994
Smoky Night by Eve Bunting	Juvenile, Silver, 1994
Two Eagles / Dos Aguilas: A Natural History of the United States-Mexico Borderlands by Tupper Ansel Blake	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1994
The ZOO WHERE YOU'RE FED TO GOD: A NOVEL by Michael Ventura	Fiction, Silver, 1994
Canto Familiar by Gary Soto	Juvenile, Silver, 1995
The Faithful Friend by Robert D. San Souci	Juvenile, Silver, 1995
Jackson Street by John A. Miller	First Work, Gold, 1995
Lights & Mysteries by Thomas Centolella	Poetry, Silver, 1995
Naming the Spirits by Lawrence Thornton	Fiction, Silver, 1995
Poles Apart: Parallel Visions of the Arctic and Antarctic by Galen Rowell	Nonfiction, Silver, 1995
Possible Lives: The Promise of Public Education in America by Mike Rose	Nonfiction, Silver, 1995
Reckless Driver by Lisa Vice	First Work, Silver, 1995
Red Sauce, Whiskey and Snow by August Kleinzahler	Poetry, Silver, 1995
A Time for Dancing by Davida Wills Hurwin	Juvenile, Silver, 1995
A Girl Named Disaster by Nancy Farmer	Juvenile, Silver, 1996
Harping On: Poems, 1985-1995 by Carolyn Kizer	Poetry, Silver, 1996
Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir by D. J. Waldie	Nonfiction, Gold, 1996
Lise Meitner: A Life in Physics by Ruth Lewin Sime	Nonfiction, Silver, 1996
Minty: A Story of Young Harriet Tubman by Alan Schroeder	Juvenile, Silver, 1996
Sacred Dust by David Hill	First Work of Fiction, Silver, 1996
Storm over Mono by John Hart	Californiana, Gold, 1996
Sun Under Wood by Robert Hass	Poetry, Silver, 1996
Women in Their Beds: New and Selected Stories by Gina Berriault	Fiction, Silver, 1996
Circumnavigation by Steve Lattimore	First Fiction, Silver, 1997
Creek Walk and Other Stories by Molly Giles	Fiction, Silver, 1997
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson	Fiction, Gold, 1997
The Dream Endures: California Enters the 1940s by Kevin Starr	Californiana, Silver, 1997
A Far Rockaway of the Heart (New Directions Paperbook) by Lawrence Ferlinghetti	Poetry, Silver, 1997
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond	Nonfiction, Gold, 1997
The Hired Hand by Robert D. San Souci	Juvenile, Silver, 1997
Snakes: The Evolution of Mystery in Nature by Harry W. Greene	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 1997
All on Fire: William Lloyd Garrison and the Abolition of Slavery by Henry Mayer	Nonfiction, Silver, 1998
The Art of the Lathe by B. H. Fairchild	Poetry, Silver, 1998
Goodnight, Nebraska by Tom McNeal	Fiction, Silver, 1998
Harvest Son by David Mas Masumoto	Californiana, Silver, 1998
Hunger by Lan Samantha Chang	First Fiction, Silver, 1998
King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction, Gold, 1998
Lost Lake: Stories by Mark Slouka	Fiction, Silver, 1998
Mrs. Dumpty by Chana Bloch	Poetry, Silver, 1998
I Rode a Horse of Milk White Jade by Diane Wilson	Juvenile, Silver, 1998
Sitting Ducks by Michael Bedard	Juvenile, Silver, 1998
The Artist of the Missing: A Novel by Paul La Farge	First Fiction, Silver, 1999
Crooked by Laura McNeal	First Fiction, Silver, 1999
Freedom from Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945 by David M. Kennedy	Nonfiction, Gold, 1999
Leaving Pico by Frank X. Gaspar	Fiction, Silver, 1999
Little Bo by Julie Andrews	Young Adult, Silver, 1999
The Mercy: Poems by Philip Levine	Poetry, Silver, 1999
The Oxygen Man by Steve Yarbrough	First Fiction, Gold, 1999
Rush for Riches by J. S. Holliday	Californiana, Silver, 1999
Salvation at Stake: Christian Martyrdom in Early Modern Europe by Brad S. Gregory	Nonfiction, Silver, 1999
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon	Fiction, Gold, 2000
At the Sign of the Star by Katherine Sturtevant	Young Adult, Silver, 2000
California Calls You: The Art of Promoting the Golden State 1870 to 1940 by K. D. Kurutz	Publishing, Silver, 2000
Jubal's Wish by Audrey Wood	Juvenile, Silver, 2000
The literature of California / 1, Native American beginnings to 1945 by Al Young	Californiana, Silver, 2000
Our Vietnam: The War 1954-1975 by A. J. Langguth	Nonfiction, Gold, 2000
Rope Burns: Stories from the Corner by F. X. Toole	First Fiction, Silver, 2000
The Royal Family by William T. Vollmann	Fiction, Silver, 2000
Selected Poems by Fanny Howe	Poetry, Gold, 2000
American Colonies: The Settling of North America by Alan Taylor	Nonfiction, Gold, 2001
Capturing Light by Drew Heath Johnson	Californiana, Silver, 2001
Cool, Calm, and Collected: Poems 1960-2000 by Carolyn Kizer	Poetry, Silver, 2001
Edgewater Angels: A Novel by Sandro Meallet	First Fiction, Silver, 2001
Haussmann, or the Distinction: A Novel by Paul La Farge	Fiction, Silver, 2001
Highwire Moon by Susan Straight	Fiction, Gold, 2001
New and Collected Poems: 1931–2001 by Czesław Miłosz	Poetry, Gold, 2001
Notes from a Liar and Her Dog by Gennifer Choldenko	Young Adult, Silver, 2001
Splendide Californie!: Impressions of the Golden State by French Artists, 1786 to 1900 by Claudine Chalmers	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2001
American Law in the Twentieth Century by Lawrence M. Friedman	Nonfiction, Silver, 2002
Brown: The Last Discovery of America by Richard Rodriguez	Nonfiction, Gold, 2002
Early Occult Memory Systems of the Lower Midwest: Poems by B. H. Fairchild	Poetry, Gold, 2002
The High Sierra of California by Gary Snyder	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2002
The Last Good Chance: A Novel by Tom Barbash	First Fiction, Silver, 2002
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold	First Fiction, Silver, 2002
The Miracle: A Novel by John L'Heureux	Fiction, Gold, 2002
This Land Was Made for You and Me: The Life and Songs of Woody Guthrie (Golden Kite Awards) by Elizabeth Partridge	Young Adult, Silver, 2002
When Marian Sang: The True Recital of Marian Anderson by Pam Muñoz Ryan	Juvenile, Silver, 2002
Writing Los Angeles: A Literary Anthology by David L. Ulin	Californiana, Silver, 2002
American Expressionism: Art and Social Change, 1920-1950 by Bram Dijkstra	Nonfiction, Silver, 2003
The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau	Young Adult, Silver, 2003
Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer	First Fiction, Silver, 2003
Evidence of Things Unseen by Marianne Wiggins	Fiction, Gold, 2003
Just a Minute! A Trickster Tale and Counting Book by Yuyi Morales	Juvenile, Silver, 2003
The King Of California: J.G. Boswell and the Making of A Secret American Empire by Mark Arax	Californiana, Silver, 2003
Old School by Tobias Wolff	Fiction, Silver, 2003
Parasites Like Us by Adam Johnson	Fiction, Silver, 2003
Rising Up and Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means {abridged} by William T. Vollmann	Notable Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2003
River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit	Nonfiction, Gold, 2003
The Strange Hours Travelers Keep: Poems by August Kleinzahler	Poetry, Gold, 2003
Where I Was From by Joan Didion	Special Acknowledgement, Silver, 2003
Beasts of the Fields: A Narrative History of California Farmworkers, 1769-1913 by Richard Steven Street	Californiana, Silver, 2004
The Confessions of Max Tivoli by Andrew Sean Greer	Fiction, Gold, 2004
Every Night Is Ladies' Night: Stories by Michael Jaime-Becerra	First Fiction, Silver, 2004
Graceland by Chris Abani	Fiction, Silver, 2004
Happy Baby by Stephen Elliott	Fiction, Silver, 2004
The School Among the Ruins: Poems 2000-2004 by Adrienne Rich	Poetry, Gold, 2004
The Sorrows of Empire: Militarism, Secrecy, and the End of the Republic by Chalmers Johnson	Nonfiction, Gold, 2004
Walt Whitman: Words for America by Barbara Kerley	Juvenile, Silver, 2004
Worth by A. LaFaye	Young Adult, Silver, 2004
Bury the Chains: Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves by Adam Hochschild	Nonfiction, Gold, 2005
The Cloud Chamber by Joyce Maynard	Young Adult, Silver, 2005
Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed by Jared M. Diamond	Nonfiction, Silver, 2005
Europe Central by William T. Vollmann	Fiction, Gold, 2005
The Great Earthquake and Firestorms of 1906 by Philip L. Fradkin	Californiana, Silver, 2005
The Niagara River: Poems by Kay Ryan	Poetry, Gold, 2005
Nice Big American Baby by Judy Budnitz	Fiction, Silver, 2005
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See	Fiction, Silver, 2005
Terrific by Jon Agee	Juvenile, Silver, 2005
A Thousand Years of Good Prayers: Stories by Yiyun Li	First Fiction, Silver, 2005
Artificial Light (Little House on the Bowery) by James Greer	First Fiction, Silver, 2006
Enrique's Journey: The Story of a Boy's Dangerous Odyssey to Reunite with His Mother by Sonia Nazario	Nonfiction, Silver, 2006
The Great Black Way by RJ Smith	Californiana, Silver, 2006
Landed by Milly Lee	Juvenile, Silver, 2006
New and Collected Poems, 1964-2006 by Ishmael Reed	Poetry, Gold, 2006
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan	Nonfiction, Gold, 2006
Talk Talk by T. C. Boyle	Fiction, Silver, 2006
A True and Faithful Narrative by Katherine Sturtevant	Young Adult, Silver, 2006
Wizard of the Crow by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o	Fiction, Gold, 2006
Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems by W. S. Di Piero	Poetry, Gold, 2007
Glass Slipper, Gold Sandal: A Worldwide Cinderella by Paul Fleischman	Contribution to Publishing, Silver, 2007
Ralph Ellison: A Biography by Arnold Rampersad	Nonfiction, Gold, 2007
Reinventing Los Angeles: Nature and Community in the Global City by Robert Gottlieb	Californiana, Silver, 2007
Revolution Is Not a Dinner Party by Ying Chang Compestine	Young Adult, Silver, 2007
Sons and Other Flammable Objects by Porochista Khakpour	First Fiction, Silver, 2007
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher	2007
What Hath God Wrought: The Transformation of America, 1815-1848 by Daniel Walker Howe	Nonfiction, Silver, 2007
The Yiddish Policemen's Union by Michael Chabon	Fiction, Gold, 2007
The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space by William David Estrada	2008
Asian American Art: A History, 1850-1970 by Gordon Chang	Contribution to Publishing, Gold, 2008
The End of the Jews: A Novel by Adam Mansbach	Fiction, Gold, 2008
Hallelujah Junction: Composing an American Life by John Adams	Nonfiction, Gold, 2008
Legend of a Suicide by David Vann	First Fiction, Silver, 2008
Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West by Deanne Stillman	Nonfiction, Silver, 2008
Practice by Dan Bellm	Poetry, Silver, 2008
Sleeping It Off in Rapid City: Poems, New and Selected by August Kleinzahler	Poetry, Gold, 2008
Telex from Cuba by Rachel Kushner	First Fiction, Gold, 2008
We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball by Kadir Nelson	Juvenile, Gold, 2008
White Sands, Red Menace by Ellen Klages	Young Adult, Gold, 2008
The Bigness of the World: Stories by Lori Ostlund	First Fiction, Gold, 2009
Lucky Breaks by Susan Patron	Juvenile, Gold, 2009
A Paradise Built in Hell: The Extraordinary Communities That Arise in Disaster by Rebecca Solnit	Nonfiction, Gold, 2009
The Vagrants by Yiyun Li	Fiction, Gold, 2009
Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 1 by Mark Twain — not in English Common Knowledge	Contribution to publishing, Gold, 2010
Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History by Yunte Huang — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, Gold, 2010
Grandma's Gloves by Cecil Castellucci — not in English Common Knowledge	Juvenile, Gold, 2010
The Harvard Psychedelic Club: How Timothy Leary, Ram Dass, Huston Smith, and Andrew Weil Killed the Fifties and Ushered in a New Age for America by Don Lattin — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, Silver, 2010
I Hotel by Karen Tei Yamashita — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, Gold, 2010
The Lost Books of The Odyssey by Zachary Mason — not in English Common Knowledge	First fiction, Gold, 2010
Model Home by Eric Puchner	Fiction, 2010
Mortal Geography (Karen & Michael Braziller Books) by Alexandra Teague — not in English Common Knowledge	Poetry, Gold, 2010
A State of Change: Forgotten Landscapes of California by Laura Cunningham — not in English Common Knowledge	Californiana, Gold, 2010
Suck on the Marrow by CAMILLE DUNGY — not in English Common Knowledge	Poetry, Silver, 2010
The Things a Brother Knows by Dana Reinhardt — not in English Common Knowledge	Young Adult, Gold, 2010
The Apothecary by Maile Meloy — not in English Common Knowledge	Young Adult, Gold, 2011
Ascension by Giovanni Singleton — not in English Common Knowledge	Poetry, Gold, 2011
The Barbarian Nurseries by Héctor Tobar — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, Gold, 2011
Chasing Aphrodite: The Hunt for Looted Antiquities at the World's Richest Museum by Jason Felch — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, Gold, 2011
Chuckwalla Land: The Riddle of California's Desert by David Rains Wallace — not in English Common Knowledge	Californiana, Gold, 2011
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, Silver, 2011
Love and Shame and Love by Peter Orner — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, Silver, 2011
One Day and One Amazing Morning on Orange Street by Joanne Rocklin	Juvenile, 2011
Ten Years That Shook the City: San Francisco 1968-1978 by Chris Carlsson — not in English Common Knowledge	Contribution to publishing, Gold, 2011
Turn of Mind by Alice LaPlante	First Fiction, 2011
God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine by Victoria Sweet	Nonfiction, Gold, 2012
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer by Anne-Marie O'Connor	Nonfiction, Silver, 2012
Masha'allah and Other Stories by Mariah K. Young	First fiction, Silver, 2012
The One and Only Ivan by Katherine Applegate — not in English Common Knowledge	Juvenile, Gold, 2012
The Orphan Master's Son by Adam Johnson	Fiction, 2012
A Partial History of Lost Causes by Jennifer DuBois — not in English Common Knowledge	First fiction, Gold, 2012
Sea and fog by Etel Adnan	Poetry, Gold, 2012
Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson — not in English Common Knowledge	Young Adult, Gold, 2012
A Soldier's Secret: The Incredible True Story of Sarah Edmonds, a Civil War Hero by Marissa Moss — not in English Common Knowledge	Young adult, Silver, 2012
Sunshine Was Never Enough: Los Angeles Workers, 1880-2010 by John H. M. Laslett	2012
Valley of Shadows and Dreams by Melanie Light — not in English Common Knowledge	contribution to publishing, Gold, 2012
Barbed Wire Baseball by Marissa Moss — not in English Common Knowledge	Juvenile, Gold, 2013
The Boss (McSweeney's Poetry Series) by Victoria Chang	Poetry, Silver, 2013
Command and Control: Nuclear Weapons, the Damascus Accident, and the Illusion of Safety by Eric Schlosser — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, Gold, 2013
A Constellation of Vital Phenomena by Anthony Marra — not in English Common Knowledge	First Fiction, Gold, 2013
Farewell, Fred Voodoo: A Letter from Haiti by Amy Wilentz	Nonfiction, Silver, 2013
Scrape the Willow Until It Sings: The Words and Work of Basket Maker Julia Parker by Deborah Valoma — not in English Common Knowledge	Contribution to publishing, Gold, 2013
Seasonal Works with Letters on Fire by Brenda Hillman — not in English Common Knowledge	Poetry, Gold, 2013
We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler	Fiction, Gold, 2013
The Crusades of Cesar Chavez: A Biography by Miriam Pawel	Gold Nonfiction, 2014
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Héctor Tobar	Nonfiction, Silver, 2014
Far Far Away by Tom McNeal — not in English Common Knowledge	Young Adult, Gold, 2014
The Feel Trio by Fred Moten	Poetry, 2014
The Fourteenth Goldfish by Jennifer L. Holm	Juvenile, 2014
Gabi, a Girl in Pieces by Isabel Quintero	Young Adult, 2014
The Heyday of Malcolm Margolin : the damn good times of a fiercely independent publisher by Kim Bancroft	Contribution to Publishing, 2014
Orfeo by Richard Powers	Silver, 2014
San Francisco's Jewel City: The Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915 by Laura A. Ackley — not in English Common Knowledge	Californiana, Gold, 2014
The UnAmericans: Stories by Molly Antopol	First Fiction, Silver, 2014
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine	Gold Fiction, 2014
Waiting for the Electricity: A Novel by Christina Nichol	First Fiction, Gold, 2014
The Alex Crow by Andrew Smith — not in English Common Knowledge	Young Adult, Silver, 2015
California's Wild Edge by Tom Killion	Californiana, 2015
Challenger Deep by Neal Shusterman — not in English Common Knowledge	Young Adult, Gold, 2015
The Collected Letters of Robinson Jeffers, with Selected Letters of Una Jeffers: Volume One, 1890-1930 by James Karman — not in English Common Knowledge	Contribution to Publishing, 2015
Ghettoside: A True Story of Murder in America by Jill Leovy — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, Gold, 2015
A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories by Lucia Berlin — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, Gold, 2015
Melissa by Alex Gino — not in English Common Knowledge	Juvenile, 2015
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, Silver, 2015
The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen — not in English Common Knowledge	2015
Cloud and Wallfish by Anne Nesbet — not in English Common Knowledge	Juvenile, 2016
Dog Years (Pitt Drue Heinz Lit Prize) by Melissa Yancy — not in English Common Knowledge	First Fiction, 2016
Ecosystems of California by Harold Mooney	Contribution to publishing, 2016
Engineering Eden: The True Story of a Violent Death, a Trial, and the Fight over Controlling Nature by Jordan Fisher Smith — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, Silver, 2016
The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America by Andrés Reséndez — not in English Common Knowledge	Nonfiction, Gold, 2016
The Portable Veblen by Elizabeth McKenzie — not in English Common Knowledge	Fiction, Silver, 2016
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley	Californiana, Gold, 2017
Buck Studies by Douglas Kearney	Poetry, Silver, 2017
Moonglow by Michael Chabon	Fiction, Gold, 2017
Restless Continent by Aja Couchois Duncan	Poetry, Gold, 2017
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon	Gold, Young Adult, 2017
The 57 Bus by Dashka Slater	Young Adult, 2018
The Age of Perpetual Light by Josh Weil	Gold, Fiction, 2018
The California Field Atlas by Obi Kaufmann	Contribution to Publishing, 2018
The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein	Gold, Nonfiction 2018
The Far Away Brothers: Two Young Migrants and the Making of an American Life by Lauren Markham	Silver, Nonfiction 2018
Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong	First Fiction, 2018
Heaven Is All Goodbyes: Pocket Poets No. 61 (City Lights Pocket Poets Series) by Tongo Eisen-Martin	Poetry, 2018
Maya Lin by Susan Goldman Rubin	Juvinile, 2018
The Modoc War: A Story of Genocide at the Dawn of America’s Gilded Age by Robert Aquinas McNally	Californiana, 2018
So Much Blue by Percival Everett	Silver, Fiction, 2018
American Prison: A Reporter's Undercover Journey into the Business of Punishment by Shane Bauer	Silver, Nonfiction, 2019
The Browns of California: The Family Dynasty that Transformed a State and Shaped a Nation by Miriam Pawel	Gold, Californiana, 2019
Fruit of the Drunken Tree by Ingrid Rojas Contreras	Silver, First Fiction, 2019
The Language of Spells by Garret Weyr	Gold, Juvenile, 2019
The Library Book by Susan Orlean	Gold, Nonfiction, 2019
The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner	Gold, Fiction, 2019
Picture Us In The Light by Kelly Loy Gilbert	Young Adult, 2019
There There by Tommy Orange	Gold Medal, Fist Fiction, 2019
Total Recall by Samantha Giles	Gold, Poetry, 2019
Winter Kept Us Warm: A Novel by Anne Raeff	Silver, Fiction, 2019

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